EMC-adequate design of printed circuit boards as a part of the system development

The EMC-adequate design of microelectronic systems includes all actions intended to eliminate electromagnetic interference in electronic systems. Challenges faced in the microelectronic area include growing system complexity, higher operating speed, denser design at all levels of integration (chip, printed circuit board, MCM and system). Growing complexity, denser design and higher speed all lead to a substantial increase in EMC problems and design time. EMC is not commonly accepted in microelectronic design. Microelectronic designers have the opinion that EMC has to do with electrical and electronic systems and mandatory product regulations instead of requirements to the integrated circuit they are designing. In this contribution a concept for an EMC-adequate design of electronic systems will be introduced. This concept is based on a generalized development process to integrate EMC-constraints into system design. A prototype of an environment to analyse signal integrity effects on PCB based on a workflow oriented integration approach will be introduced. Based on this approach the generation of user specific design and analysis environments including various set of EMC-tools is possible.